Buddhist Missionaries and Bible Skepticism
A DELEGATION of Buddhist missionaries from Japan have commenced operations in San Francisco. If the professing Christians in this country had stood true to their faith in the literal Word of God, there would be but little soil here for the seed-sowing of such missionaries. But so many have been led to look upon the Bible as only partly true, and they have covered it over with so many human speculations and fallacious reasonings, that the hearts of men are not fortified, even against these worse than ridiculous theories of the darkest heathenism. The speculative way in which men have been dealing with the Bible has educated this generation to the place where men and women are eager for the most fanciful and mystical doctrines. It does not matter whether these doctrines have any sense to them or not. If they are only mysterious and mythical there are thousands of people who are eager to espouse them. And yet men tell us that the world is getting better and we are soon to have a millennium of righteousness.